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Abstract
Zora Neale Hurston’s major works are examined to demonstrate how Africanism functions and is represented in her fiction. The main focus of this study is on Hurston’s two major novels, Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God, besides her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road. This dissertation discusses how Africanism is presented in Hurston’s novels through various forms of African cultural heritage such as conjuring, the blues, ritual, history, black slang, storytelling, and myth. Her fiction depicts how Africanism operates in the United States. She articulates the need for her black folks, throughout diaspora, to confront racism by employing their African cultural heritage as a vehicle for empowerment. Hurston’s protagonists find that when they embrace their African heritage not only do they gain greater awareness of their selfhood better as African people, but they also discover that their Africanity and their identity are intertwined.